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i mean the pakistan. georgetown with your perl project and we looked at this inside and out it is a crazy situation over there is a very complex country and the relationship between our two countries has been acute to you know codependent cold violent spouses you know i love you i hate you i love you i hate you sometimes in the same breath i mean literally power. on each other and the military is part of that the military runs the i.s.i. the i.s.i. could not be trusted in the eyes of the administration to deal with osama bin laden you know and i we didn't know he was there you have a population that hates the united states as well china has a much bigger you know public relations profile over there than we do and we give them billions of dollars so it's a very complex thing you know public enemy number one it was in their country it's a it's a history of this stuff going back to the daniel pearl thing where of you know the government basically put somebody you had nothing to do with killing him on trial a
i mean the pakistan. georgetown with your perl project and we looked at this inside and out it is a crazy situation over there is a very complex country and the relationship between our two countries has been acute to you know codependent cold violent spouses you know i love you i hate you i love you i hate you sometimes in the same breath i mean literally power. on each other and the military is part of that the military runs the i.s.i. the i.s.i. could not be trusted in the eyes of the...
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with the help of pakistan. so i think that sometimes we just go from one end of greek allies, great friends which is what was your longtime, in the previous administration, two gosh, these guys are no good, et cetera. this is not the way to do business between two allies and partners. and i think we will not interpret the remarks as a letter. we understand them to be a reflection of american statement of policy, and the americans have the right to defend their homeland by ensuring that terrorists are plotting against the american homeland are dealt with. but as far as the other concern, we are very confident of our sovereignty. we would like to protect our sovereignty. and sovereignty requires that when operations take place in pakistan they should take place without knowledge and our participation. >> a quick follow. does that mean if there's a second rate, that your forces would fire on the rich? >> when i became ambassador to the united states, i went and saw very good colleague of mine, another professor of
with the help of pakistan. so i think that sometimes we just go from one end of greek allies, great friends which is what was your longtime, in the previous administration, two gosh, these guys are no good, et cetera. this is not the way to do business between two allies and partners. and i think we will not interpret the remarks as a letter. we understand them to be a reflection of american statement of policy, and the americans have the right to defend their homeland by ensuring that...
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>> i can't say. >> on pakistan. [inaudible question] >> has there been any formal complaint by the pakistani government by that event? >> not that i'm aware of today. i think you know how strongly this department and secretary clinton feels about this issue that gay rights are human rights and we will speak out. >> gaddafi has opened a line of dialogue with the opposition. do you oppose such calls? >> you know, we have heard lots of reports to this kind. gaddafi is talking, he is not talking, he is leaving, not leaving, he knows the position of the u.s., he needs to pull back his forces and step down. he hasn't changed. >> you don't think the solution or dialogue between the two factions? >> we support what is going to get us to a place when gaddafi knows it's time to go. [inaudible question] >> does the u.s. administration have any plan to reapply? >> we welcome what the turkish government has done including aid to the traditional national council. you know our position which was articulated by the secretary at the
>> i can't say. >> on pakistan. [inaudible question] >> has there been any formal complaint by the pakistani government by that event? >> not that i'm aware of today. i think you know how strongly this department and secretary clinton feels about this issue that gay rights are human rights and we will speak out. >> gaddafi has opened a line of dialogue with the opposition. do you oppose such calls? >> you know, we have heard lots of reports to this kind....
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we remain concerned about stability in pakistan and the security of that country's nuclear arsenal. we are attempting to counter terrorist threats emanating from pakistan, east africa, yemen and many other locations. into this confluence of economic and national security commitments, the president has involved our nation in a civil war in libya. we find ourselves in a situation where congress is debating vast cuts in domestic programs to make essential progress on the deficit, even as president obama has initiated an expensive, open-ended military commitment in a country that his defense secretary has said is not of vital interest. any member who has been here to witness the last ten years should understand that war is an inherently precarious enterprise that is conducive to accidents, to unintended consequences, and miscalculations. the last ten years have also illuminated clearly that initiating wars and killing the enemy is far easier than achieving political stability and reconstructing a country when the fighting is over. this is why going to war should be based on u.s. vital i
we remain concerned about stability in pakistan and the security of that country's nuclear arsenal. we are attempting to counter terrorist threats emanating from pakistan, east africa, yemen and many other locations. into this confluence of economic and national security commitments, the president has involved our nation in a civil war in libya. we find ourselves in a situation where congress is debating vast cuts in domestic programs to make essential progress on the deficit, even as president...
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the yom kippur war, peace with honor in vietnam, and a lot of the ways of the fight now, the india- pakistan war which defines what is going on in the subcontinent now. even at the end of his career and of his life, 1994, he was still in the game. he was still thinking strategically, and to him, the cold war, the effects of the cold war still were not over. he was concerned about russia, and his thesis was communism is dead in warsaw, but democracy has not yet won, and for that reason he was traveling back and forth to russia, worried about whether gorbachev or yeltsin was speaking on that topic. he got a call from president clinton, they had a conservation -- conversation about clinton's russia policy, and you could see how his policy changed along with the advice that was given by richard nixon. as i see it, that is the essence of the man. i would like to conclude by going back to senator dole's look cheap. he talks about the last sign he saw president nixon, at a luncheon held in the capital honoring the 25th anniversary of his first inaugural. president nixon stood and delivered a speech
the yom kippur war, peace with honor in vietnam, and a lot of the ways of the fight now, the india- pakistan war which defines what is going on in the subcontinent now. even at the end of his career and of his life, 1994, he was still in the game. he was still thinking strategically, and to him, the cold war, the effects of the cold war still were not over. he was concerned about russia, and his thesis was communism is dead in warsaw, but democracy has not yet won, and for that reason he was...